The Coral Triangle

Threats

100

This type of fishing either kills or stuns fish in a large area.

What is blast fishing?

200

Unspecific methods of fishing can result in this, decimating populations of fish.

What is bycatch?

300

These methods of fishing are extremely destructive to the ecosystem.

What are cyanide fishing and dynamite fishing?

400

Cimate change causes these.

What are ocean acidification and warmer water?

500

This percent of the Coral Triangle's ecosystems are threatened.

What is 85?

Miscellaneous

100

The Coral Triangle has this number of species of sea turtles out of this number in the world.

What is six out of seven?

200

The people of the Coral Triangle export a lot of this.

What is tuna fish?

300

Over this number of people rely on the Coral Triangle.

What is 126 million?

400

The Coral Triangle is the home for this percent of the world's known species of reef fish.

What is 34?

500

Name three of the places that are part of the Coral Triangle.

What are Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste, the Philippines, and the Solomon Islands?

Plans of Action

100

What are three things that you can do to help protect the Coral Triangle?

What are donating $5 to MyCoralTriangle, checking for MCS and ASC logos, and making sure that you're garbage goes into the right place and never ends up in the oceans? 1

200

You can do this when you buy seafood to support sustainable fisheries.

What is check for either the MSC or ASC logo?

300

Name three organizations that are trying to protect the Coral Triangle.

What are The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife, the Coral Triangle Initiative, and the governments of the encapsulated countries?

400

What do MSC and ASC stand for?

What is the Marine Stewardship Council, and the Aquaculture stewardship council?

500

Name five things that WWF is doing this to help preserve the Coral Triangle.

What are climate change preparation, building sustainable fisheries, reducing bycatch, creating "protected areas," protecting marine turtles, and trying to popularize the use of "alternative" fishing hooks?